Sonya Mann ✅Both articles about Mastodon (Sarah's on Vice and Casey's on The Verge) are missing a ton of context about the Fediverse that came first, and the community schisms. From Casey's piece it would be easy to think that Mastodon was invented from whole cloth; it wasn't.
To be clear, there are good parts of both articles (especially Sarah's). They're just both incomplete. We need a full-length magazine feature to explain all of this, tbh.
JJ 🔇「cιtιƶεnƒιvε」🏴Ⓐ@sonya no need to mince words, Casey's is hilariously embarrassing next to Sarah's, she only got one thing wrong (and only if we're being strict). There's no Masto "protocol". But it is sorta it's own standard rn so also it is a bit
@five yeah, I think Sarah's was about 1000x better than Casey's, and I'm not pleased with his shruggy reaction to a basic fact-check either: https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/849349371271491586
@sonya there's journalists, and then "journalists" lol
aust@five I think Casey is extremely funny and I usually like his work, but........ Gellmann's amnesia I guess
@sonya he probably is! he was assigned this as a special interest fluff piece, and treated it as such. Bc Nazis and whatnot rankle Sarah she made it a bigger deal at Motherboard
@sonya this is fucking hilarious tho, poor Sarah lmao -- Casey scooped her (as a journo you want to see your impact, right, so he made it hard to tell who drove traffic) but not only that Eugen shut off signups (thank god) AND hahahahaha...
Did you guess that the *band* Mastodon was on Jimmy Kimmel pushing a new album, rendering all analytics and Google Trends and whatnot completely useless noise for her (and Casey's) purposes. Because that's what happened. https://www.google.com/search?q=mastodon+jimmy+kimmel @sonya
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@five @SexyCyborg in particular on Twitter follower count is worthless for anything but optics because of all the spam accounts